ABC Stores

what a great place it is! they have beers to blunt wraps to souvineers ‚& tshirts, ornaments! what more could you ask for?

A very convenient store to go to if needing small things. These stores are around every corner in Waikiki. Need to buy some liquor, go there. Need to buy some medication for a headache, after drinking all that liquor, go there. Need to buy some souvenirs for your trip back home, go here. Loved that there was an ABC store, right across from the hotel we stayed in. It is like 7 – 11 but more expensive and with more things in it.

ABC stores are great tourist convenience shops. They have a lot of good snack items and gifts (cheep shirts/​expensive chocolates), but make SURE to check the dates on the packaged foods. I’m in hawaii a lot for work and I like to go get yogurt and milk here. The Greek Gods yogurt is hard to find at home so I try to get some here, but 99% of the time it’s weeks past the expiration date. Same problem with some other of their foods. Otherwise good store.

I love ABC stores even though they are very touristy. But you can get everything you need here and that’s great. I thought it was nice that they give you a gift after $ 100 in receipts. We grabbed breakfast there quickly a few mornings and while it was expensive, it was tasty and quick.

ABC= Aloha Bring Cash
This is my neighborhood store!
Living a block away on kaiolu, this is the perfect place to stumble to after a night out.
Prices are high, but hey welcome to Waikiki. It’s the employees here that make the store: Noreen and Anna are always there to brighten up my day. Always welcoming and friendly, they get you in and out when you need to, and are always talkative when its slow. So yeah there are TONS of ABCs in waiks, but this one is the friendliest!

There are a gazillion ABC stores in Honolulu and on the other islands as well. This is the place if you forgot something at home, or want a snack. A can of soda was only 79 cents!!! They also sell souvenirs and they have good prices on bags of Kona coffee. Most are open until midnite. So go on and get your late night munchie fix! LOL

ABC stores please come to Yaletown. At least five of you scattered between Richards and Pacific, Homer and Nelson.
Please come exactly the way you are with spam musubi, cold beer and sake in the drinks section, Hello Kitty theme box macadamia nut chocolates, souvenir ukuleles and coconut m&m’s.
Please also come with the cute staffs who are always asking if you «would like something to eat those drinks» or «something to drink with those snacks» and reminding us to «keep the receipts for one free gift after $ 100 spent» and always saying Mahalo!
Oh one thing please come with Don Quijote pricing…
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Yeah, they’re everywhere.
ABC Store #30, 2255 Kuhio Avenue
Potato chips, a bag of Mauna Loa macadamia nuts, ice cream, Johnsons Band-​Aids, 2 large diet Pepsis, 2 five-​hour energy shots, $ 35.
Just pretend like you’re living in Fisherman’s Wharf, and it will all be OK.

This is a review of ABC stores in general and not this particular ABC store. I lived in Asia before and ABC stores really bring me back to the convenient store you find on every corner (literally every corner there is an ABC store!!!). Can’t fault the convenience and love that they carry allt he everyday essentials — the only problem is that they price rape you on everything. A box of chocolate covered macadamia nuts is roughly $ 7 – 8 at an ABC store; we actually went to the Walmart and they were selling them for $ 2.50 — major mark-​up!!!
2-​star for convenience; we did buy a lot of water/​drinks from the various stores, but unlike their Asian counterparts, everything is just marked up way too much.

You can’t walk 5 blocks without seeing a ABC Store — they are everywhere and open until midnight. Forgot something from home? Need a souvenir? Looking for snacks? Find it at the ABC Store!
Don’t forget to pick up Spam flavored macadamia nuts… that’s right people, spam is everywhere.

There are so many of these in Waikiki! Probably saw 5 within 5 minutes of walking.
Good for random purchases while out – like keychains, or postcards or other touristy things.
I enjoy looking at all the stuff, and get tempted to buy something almost every time I’m in one.

These stores are everywhere. It’s kind of like how Starbucks is everywhere on the Mainland — in Waikiki, it’s the ABC Stores. Ridiculous!
They have cheap souvenirs when you want them and provide easy access to cheap water, food and so forth. Can you get these items for cheaper elsewhere? Yeah, you sure can if you want to walk off Waikiki beach or have a car to drive to a different place. But for the location and what it provided, I definitely appreciate the stores everywhere!

There’s an ABC store around every corner of the tourist sections of Honolulu and I don’t know how to review them but to say they cater to tourists by carrying inexpensive (yes, low-​quality too, but you get what you pay for) souvenirs, hawaiian hats and shirts, and some basic needs such as water bottled, pre-​made meals and tiny shampoos.

Overpriced tourist trap. Gifts/​food is of good, but not exceptional, quality and it is all overpriced. We looked it up, there were 37 ABC stores within a one mile radius of our Waikiki hotel; a bit excessive don’t you think?
Anyway, I’m sure you will go to one anyway, since they are impossible to avoid– so why am I wasting my time with this review anyways?

ABC = Aloha brings customers with a tag line like that, can a business fail. By it’s sheer numbers ABC is a true winner offering everything you need at fair prices.
We grabbed everything from sunscreen, beach towels, flip flops to souvenirs here. We forget to pack anything on our many tours, we would just depend on ABC.
Tip: None of the ABCs sell bathing suits, which is a plus as the store would get really crammed and difficult to steer through if they did :)

This was my first visit to the Hawaiian Islands where I did not come back with much from the ABC Stores! What on earth happened here? Yes, there was always a little junk in the inventory but, now there is NOTHING BUT JUNK! And everything was priced so much higher here than in other retail outlets. Wine, ready made Mai Tais and other perishable Hawaiian specialities are much cheaper at Safeway.
Our trip occured between Christmas and New Year’s so we thought it would be fun to pick up a couple of Hawaiian Christmas ornaments. Are they marked down at the ABC Stores after the holidays like they are at so many other retail outlets? No! I managed to circumvent this however — the same ornaments ABC peddled for $ 5.99 were on sale at Target for $ 1.24!
I realize that the ABC Stores market niche is the tourist trap but, I still found a reason to root for the place and to shop there. Now my eyes are open and all I can say is, «Shop smart consumers!!»

There is a ABC store on EVERY SINGLE CORNER. You can’t walk more than 60 seconds without hitting one.
THEY’RE VERY AFFORDABLE. Unlike other souvenir shots in vacation spots around the world, ABC Stores is affordable stuff. Macadamia Nut gift boxes for $ 2ish. Alchy, food, etc.
You just can’t bargain at ABC like u can at mom n pop shops though ha.

This will be very a much a mainlander’s point of view. Obviously, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an ABC store anywhere on Oahu.
«Hey, I fell off my surfboard and landed inside an ABC store, duhr»
Everybody knows that they are convenient, ubiquitous, not cheap and tacky. What I suggest is that 7 – 11 needs to get it’s act together and start spitting out more stores that sell gaudy trinkets at exorbitant prices.
The great thing about ABC stores is just that, they are there when you need one:
— Out of peppermint schnapps? no problem.
— Last minute gift? Step right this way.
— Last minute hookup and need a jimmy cover? Got it right here.
Hey, if you are ever in Hawaii and get a third degree sun burn, its only because you wanted one.
Ma-​halo.

:) ABC STORES saved my life. No joke.
— Tweezers, check
— Nail polish, check
— Pads, check
— Tampons, check
— Eyeliner, check
— Shampoo, check
— Conditioner, check
— Lunch, check
— Deodorant, check
— Cute dress to impress the kane’s at the beach, CHECK :)
— Cute flip flops to show off the nail polish I just bought, CHECK: D
— Cute flower to put in my hair to pretend I’m local, check
— An employee to bother in the middle of the night when I’m bored & can’t sleep, check
Thanks for being there, ABC STORES, and the nice little locals that had to call the store down the street to find me some eyeliner because mine melted on the plane :) I shall return.

How is this place $$? It was cheap (not compared to the states) but definitely compared to everywhere else on the island. I went here for all of my needs… snacks…beach stuff… random things…
I’m not a huge tourist, I am just practical. These places are about every 5 steps around every corner in Hawaii, so you can’t miss it. Go in and see what all the fuss is about, there’s a reason why these places can stay in business with its identical twin brother store 10 feet to the left and right of it.